Food Addiction Clinical Treatment Program (FACT)

Wake Forest University (WFU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Food Addiction

Treatments: Behavioral: 16-week Food Addiction Clinical Treatment (FACT) Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04373343

IRB00053663

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this current study is to establish the feasibility of, and preliminary support for, a clinical treatment program utilizing interventions from various empirically supported treatments for obesity-related eating disorders and substance use disorders

Full description

To establish the feasibility of recruiting, enrolling, and treating individuals who meet criteria for FA in a group behavioral intervention for 16 weeks. Data from the current study will be used for the purposes of further exploration of the FACT program in a larger randomized controlled trial. We hypothesize the study will demonstrate the feasibility of evaluating this treatment in future studies

Enrollment: 2 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age > 25
• BMI >25
• YFAS > 6/11 (severe range)
• willing to commit to a 16 week group therapy program from 4 - 5:30 pm on Thursdays in Winston-Salem, NC
• English speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Current participation in professional weight loss program and unwillingness to suspend it for 16 weeks during treatment
• obesity medications with exception of diabetes medication with weight loss benefit (ie metformin),
• current nicotine use or substance use disorder (based on meeting the clinical cutoff for the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test and/or Cannabis Use Disorder Identification Test
• history of weight loss surgery,
• current/history of severe mental illness (> 3 psychiatric hospitalizations since age 18,
• schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorder, or personality disorder),
• current/history of lithium, abilify, saphris, vraylor, clozaril, latuda, zyprexa, seroquel, risperdal, or Geodon,
• current pregnancy or breastfeeding,
• prior diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, diagnosis of bulimia nervosa in the last 5 years,
• high currents rates of restrictive eating disorder symptoms based on the Eating Disorder Diagnosis Scale (EDDS; (i.e., any endorsement of vomiting or laxative/diuretic use to manage weight and endorsement of fasting or excessive exercise more than 2 or 3 times a week)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2 participants in 1 patient group

16-week Food Addiction Clinical Treatment (FACT) Program

Other group

Description:

16-week Food Addiction Clinical Treatment (FACT) Program, first session will be 120 mins, all subsequent sessions will be 90 mins. Treatment will be led, at a minimum, by a full licensed psychologist

Treatment:

Behavioral: 16-week Food Addiction Clinical Treatment (FACT) Program